Jonas's first therapy session after his father's suicide
Back from two months away, Jonas admits he still sees his dead father, then explodes at the one question no one can answer: why.
Jonas Kahnwald's Best Moments
Every Dark moment featuring Jonas Kahnwald, in story order. Played by Louis Hofmann.
85 moments · 2h 22m · by Favseen
Moments 1–30 of 85
- 01
- 02
Bartosz welcomes Jonas back to the madhouse
Bartosz covers for Jonas's absence with a fake French exchange story, shuts down the staring classmates and hints at what he missed with Erik.
- 03
Jonas and Martha: a glitch in the matrix
Waiting for the others in the forest, Martha tries to explain last summer and Bartosz; Jonas feels deja vu and she calls it a message from the other side.
- 04
The kids ask what really happened to Erik
On the walk to the caves Mikkel imagines a witch's basement, Jonas cites his dead father on good and evil, and Mikkel decides even the dead want to be found.
- 05
Franziska beat them to Erik's stash
The boys find the hiding spot empty; Franziska already has the bag, quotes the law of possession and tries to sell it back to Bartosz for 200.
- 06
Something in the cave, and Mikkel is gone
Flashlights die, a noise comes from the dark and the kids scatter; when they regroup, Jonas is alone and Mikkel is nowhere to be found.
- 07
Jonas asks Hannah whether she loved his father
Jonas wonders if his dad kept secrets; Hannah admits she misses a notion of him and may never have known who he really was.
- 08
Bartosz asks Jonas to come meet Erik's dealer
Over a video game, Bartosz swears Jonas to secrecy and asks him to come along to a night meeting with Erik's dealer.
- 09
A man who knew Jonas's father: 'Life is a labyrinth'
An older man tells Jonas his father once saved his life, then offers a haunting speech about life as a labyrinth and making peace with death.
- 10
Jonas confesses to Martha he was never in France
After her performance, Jonas admits he spent the summer in a psychiatric clinic and asks whether what happened between them meant something.
- 11
Michael's letter: Mikkel became Michael
Jonas finally opens his father's sealed letter and learns Michael traveled from 2019 to 1986 as a boy. The show's first big reveal.
- 12
A nightmare in the dark: calling for Katharina and Ulrich
The episode opens inside a dream of running and screaming for help, before a quiet reassurance that everything is all right.
- 13
Jonas asks Hannah how she met his father
Jonas asks his mother about meeting his father in a hospital at fourteen, and what he was like before he got sick.
- 14
Jonas and Martha before the play; Bartosz asks where Jonas is
Martha blames herself for the night at the caves and offers to run away with Jonas; moments later Bartosz asks if anyone has seen him.
- 15
Jonas tells Martha they are wrong for each other
Martha demands to know why Jonas vanished after their kiss; he insists the thing between them is wrong without saying why.
- 16
Jonas confronts Ines: she always knew his father came from the future
Ines hands Jonas the letter he burned and admits she knew; he unloads the tangle of his family and says he is the thing that is wrong.
- 17
Houdini and the butterfly: a dream of finally waking up
Talk of Houdini turns to Master Zhuang's paradox: is he a person dreaming of a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of a person?
- 18
Bartosz turns on Jonas over the lies and Martha
Bartosz throws Jonas's lies back at him, from the cover story to the kiss with Martha, and drives him off for good.
- 19
A bruised Jonas tells Hannah everything will be fine
Jonas comes home hurt from the fight, brushes off Hannah's questions and heads out, promising her it will all be fine.
- 20
In the bunker, the Stranger reveals he is Jonas
Locked in a bunker that is a crude time machine, Jonas learns the Stranger is his older self, who cannot free him without undoing who he became.
- 21
An 80s German pop song about the future plays
A song about the future starting somewhere, sometime plays over the episode as its threads converge.
- 22
Jonas wakes in a ruined future: welcome to the future
Jonas is held at gunpoint by strangers, asks what year it is and is told he has landed in the future.
- 23
2052: Jonas finds Martha's name on the wall of the dead
In the future, Jonas reads a memorial of people who died on June 27, 2020, including his father's date and Martha's name.
- 24
2052: Jonas rejects the survivors' paradise and wants to go home
Jonas is told crossing the dead zone means death and the passage leads to paradise; he says everyone he loves dies in six days.
- 25
Jonas stumbles into 1921 and asks what year it is
A ragged Jonas is taken in by a veteran who mistakes him for a returning soldier, and learns he has landed in 1921.
- 26
Young Noah tells Jonas the travelers are waiting
At the passage in 1921 a boy says it will not open for 32 years and that Sic Mundus wants to send Jonas home.
- 27
Jonas meets the travelers' hideout in 1921
Brought to a hidden place, Jonas learns the boy is not a traveler yet, and a familiar face reminds him of their last encounter.
- 28
Adam reveals to Jonas: I am you
In 1921 the scarred leader of Sic Mundus shows Jonas his face, speaks of everyone's end, and says he is Jonas himself.
- 29
Adam in 1921: a man lives three lives
In 1921 Adam tells Jonas every man loses naivety, innocence, then life, and that Jonas will become him.
- 30
Adam declares war on time: God is time
In 1921 Adam explains Sic Mundus is no religion but a war on time itself, which he calls God.